The other day I was flicking through the Dick Smith website (as an addicted web window geek shopper) and I was surprised to find that the Optimus L7 II and Optimus L2 II on their website on Optus Pre-Paid, albeit not available at this time.

Now whilst both devices aren’t top notch high end specs, they do bring some nice specs for a low end market. To re-fresh your memory, here are the specs for both devicesLG Optimus L7 II

Having a look back over at the Dick Smith website, it would seem the L7 II is in stock whilst the L2 II is still not available.

The LG Optimus L7 II is available for $229 on Optus Pre-Paid. It should also be available late July from Allphones as well (although not sure unlocked or locked to a network provider such as Optus), whilst the L2 II will be available next week for $109 on the Optus Pre-Paid.

Alex has been an avid Android fan since 2011 when he got his first ever device, the Sony Ericsson Xperia x10 mini. Alex has been working within the Industrial Relations industry for the last 6 years, before that 6 months was spent under the NSW Fair Trading dept as a rental bonds officer and prior to that 2 and a half years within the tourism industry. Alex's does spend a fair bit of his time on Twitter, Facebook and various other social media sites search for all things Android.

Little bit more RAM would be nice – but sensational phones for the price…

Sean Royce

They’re okay for a budget phone I guess, but 512mb of ram is really gonna make the phone struggle.

minimad

512MB should be enough for QVGA resolution, the WVGA L7II has 768MB.

Zak

Allphones already has the l7 2 dual for 245$ unlocked in stock guys

Alex D

I tried to get info from the 3 Allphones store around me and all they wanted to know if I wanted to sign up to a plan before they would tell me if they had in stock

zak

thats weird not even available on plan so i dont see why they would do that but if your located in vic i know we got some in knox and dandenong but they are selling quick!

JeniSkunk

DSE are showing the outright purchase dual-sim P715 L7II as the Optus exclusive prepaid P713GO L7 II.
I picked up one of the P713GO 2 weeks ago, and it is a manufacturer and telco crippled Android device that rates: AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

minimad

In what way?

All the OPTUS apps can be uninstalled and as can most the other preloaded apps – there is also an option in the menu to hide/show apps.

Hardly an AVOID AT ALL COSTS considering EVERY other prepaid carrier android device has the the same or similar level of preloaded apps.

For what i paid i don’t think you would find better.

JeniSkunk

mimimad, I’m not talking about the Optus bloatware here. I’m talking about manufacturer cripplement of the OS and stock Android apps.

No root access, yet. This means at present, there is no way to fully backup or restore apps, there is no ad blocking, there is no install location redirecting.

No JB swap internal SD card partition and external physical microSD in the file system. Diked out of Settings

No MSC mode in ROM, only accessible on desktop via the LG PC Sync program which is only for Win or Mac. Linux users go away, you are Not Welcome. Without the LG program, data transfer on the phone is solely as an MTP Media Device.

Stock apps replaced with non-standard LG ‘custom’ versions. Camera and Gallery, and Messaging are the ones I’ve noted in trying to use my P713GO.

Camera is completely LG custom, uses the old Android 2.x Camera UI, and does not pass ISO access to any other camera apps.
Gallery is completely LG custom.
Messaging is completely LG custom.

Konica Minolta

Upgrade for no extra cost*

Looking to improve the productivity of your business? For a limited time, when you rent or buy an eligible model for the A3 colour MFP range, we’ll upgrade you to the next model at no extra cost.